The article discusses the eminent domain issues that have emerged from the proposal by real estate developer Bruce C. Ratner to construct a basketball arena along with a commercial and residential complex in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards. The eminent domain issues have risen because the proposal requires the condemnation of private property to be used by a private property. An overview of eminent domain law in New York is presented.

Claims for loss of developer's profit and for increased development costs have been inappropriately advanced as an enhancement of market value in a number of Canadian expropriation cases. Provision for developer's profit or development costs, while made explicit in the subdivision development...

The article presents the author's views on the use of eminent domain to seize the private property of real estate tycoon and New Jersey Nets basketball team owner Bruce Ratner in Brooklyn, New York City.

The article reports that the real estate developers counting on city governments to use eminent domain to clear urban renewal sites are watching to see if the U.S. Supreme Court favors property owners in a high-profile eminent domain dispute. The Court is expected to rule in June 2005 in the...

Reports on the impact of laws governing eminent domain on the acquisition of a private property in Connecticut. Review of the case in which Norwalk Redevelopment Agency is trying to force the sale of a local leadership and its storage lot to a real estate developer; Contention on the importance...

The article reports on the decision of the BB&T Corp. bank not to lend to commercial developers planning to build on land taken away from private citizens using the principle of eminent domain. According to the bank, this policy change follows from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows...

The holdout problem is commonly cited as the justification for eminent domain, but the nature of the problem is not well understood. This article models the holdout problem in a bargaining framework, where a developer seeks to acquire several parcels of land for a large-scale development. We...

The present paper aims at analysing the human-induced transformations that took place in the Drobeta-Turnu Severin - Bechet sector of the Danube Floodplain during the last two centuries. The research started from the need to obtain a real and comprehensive database concerning the extension, the...